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An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.
Antoine Favre-Salomon (30 November 1734 – 17 August 1820) was a Swiss watchmaker.In 1796, he invented a pocket watch with an embedded musical mechanism. [1] which was later recognised as the first "comb" music box.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed ...
According to a 1987 article in The New York Times, the Music Box Society International first formed in the early 1900s to preserve and conserve existing examples of music boxes. [ 1 ] According to the MBSI's own website, the organization was founded in 1949. [ 2 ]
The music, credited to six men -- Brad Buxer, Bobby Brooks, Doug Grigsby III, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace and Cirocco Jones -- was pretty cool, too. Sonic 3 became Ben's favorite game. As the 1990s wore on, Sega lost a crucial round of the console wars to a resurgent Nintendo and upstart Sony.
Regina Music Box – Regina's music boxes were their original product, and they had an 80–90% share of the market at the company's peak. Regina music boxes use a flat metal disc, as opposed to a cylinder. Sizes ranged from 8.5 to 27 inches. The boxes were renowned for the rich tone, and they used a double set of tuned teeth.
If there's one event you don't want to miss, it's the 92nd annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony.. The Norway spruce, which stands at 74-feet tall and 43-feet wide, will be ...
Ariana Grande, the pop music and "Wicked" star, is speaking out about comments surrounding her body, calling the comments "horrible." Ariana Grande addresses 'horrible' comments about health and ...